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Description

The star-directive in clojure.pprint/cl-format with an at-prefix (~n@*) does not obey its specifications according to Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition. There are two bugs within ~n@* as of right now:

When ~n@* is supposed to jump forward over more than one argument, it jumps one step backward as if it had seen ~:*. For instance, (cl-format nil "~D ~3@*~D" 0 1 2 3) will return "0 0" and not "0 3" as expected.

When ~@* is seen, the formatter is supposed to jump to the first argument (as n defaults to 0, see specification linked above). However, whenever a ~@*-directive is seen, the formatter jumps to the second argument instead.

Activity

It may be easier to read the changes the patch does from within JIRA instead from the commit message, so I've added it here:

This solves two issues as specified by #CLJ-1134. Issue #1 is solved by doing a
relative jump forward within absolute-reposition in cl_format.clj, line 114 by
switching (- (:pos navigator) position) with (- position (:pos navigator)).

Issue #2 is handled by changing the default n-parameter to * depending on
whether the @-prefix is placed or not. If it is placed, then n defaults to
0, otherwise it defaults to 1.

In addition, new tests have been appended to test_cl_format.clj to ensure the
correctness of this patch. The tests have been tested on the Common Lisp
implementation GNU CLISP 2.49, which presumably handle the ~n@*
correctly. This patch and GNU CLISP returns the same output for each format
call, sans case for printed symbols; Common Lisp has case-insensitive symbols,
whereas Clojure has not.

Jean Niklas L'orange
added a comment - 18/Dec/12 9:28 PM - edited Patch attached.
It may be easier to read the changes the patch does from within JIRA instead from the commit message, so I've added it here:
This solves two issues as specified by #CLJ-1134. Issue #1 is solved by doing a
relative jump forward within absolute-reposition in cl_format.clj, line 114 by
switching (- (:pos navigator) position) with (- position (:pos navigator)).
Issue #2 is handled by changing the default n-parameter to * depending on
whether the @-prefix is placed or not. If it is placed, then n defaults to
0, otherwise it defaults to 1.
In addition, new tests have been appended to test_cl_format.clj to ensure the
correctness of this patch. The tests have been tested on the Common Lisp
implementation GNU CLISP 2.49, which presumably handle the ~n@*
correctly. This patch and GNU CLISP returns the same output for each format
call, sans case for printed symbols; Common Lisp has case-insensitive symbols,
whereas Clojure has not.

Jean Niklas L'orange
added a comment - 23/Jun/15 10:53 AM I'm assuming this will not get in 1.7 as the RC2 is out right now, but I wish it could be prioritised into 1.8.
As it is a triaged bugfix that applies cleanly, I'm not sure there's anything more I can do here. But if there is, don't hesitate to ask for it.